Key: E major•
Verse 1
E
A
Come everybody, listen while I sing
B
This high cost of living is a terrible thing
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A
E
A
Every day you go in to a store
B
Prices hit the ceiling just a little bit more
and some corned beef hash
A
B
All you got left is petty cash
Wintertime comes,
there's a Dickens to pay.
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B
E
Food goes up in the same old way.
anybody's guess.
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B
I pick it in the pantry for food and drink.
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E
If I don't get clothes and food to boot,
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B
I'll starve to death in my birthday suit.
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E
How in the heck can a poor man eat?
I tell you folks, you work hard all your life,
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A
sometimes your wife.
Things gettin' higher,
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B
Somethin' gotta happen and it gotta
happen quick.
hard every day,
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B
Figurin' out how to cut down your pay.
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E
Gotta give that boy somethin'
to remember
ninety cents meat,
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How in the heck can a poor man eat?
You remember the days
when butter and meat
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Was the natural food for folks to eat.
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E
I never had much as I now recall,
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But nowadays I'm lucky when I eat at all.
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Before my body just wastes away.
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A
If they don't cut the price
and ninety cents meat
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E
How in the heck can a poor man eat?
And when you go and ask them
the cause of it all
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B
They hand you a line about ten foot tall
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A
Moan and groan and
They blame it on Negroes
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and Reds and Jews
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E
B
They can't sell me that line of goods
B
E
How in the heck can a poor man eat?
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ChordsE A B
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